Financial and clinical data storage and retrieval continues to pose challenges for the healthcare environment.
Often as healthcare facilities move from legacy information systems to new systems, the data conversion for much of the data is either not done or limited in scope by the vendors involved. With this being said, it is not unusual for hospitals to continue to pay many thousands of dollars in support fees for many years on unused systems for the sole purpose of having access to the historical financial and clinical data on the system.
Control financial and clinical data
CharlesRiver Advisors has developed the SMART Archive to solve this problem. SMART Archive will save you thousands of dollars of on going support fees and put this financial and clinical data within your control and management.
The following specific services are available with the SMART Archive:
- Data Archiving project management with progress status reporting
- Site specific development and documentation of the data archiving process
- Data extraction assistance of files from the legacy system
- Creation of complete file specification
- Archiving development programming
- “Mock/Test” Archives allows the site to validate data prior to go-live
- Data Retrieval System Design and testing
- System includes security and transaction logging
Customized archiving plan
CharlesRiver Advisors develops a customized archiving plan for your organization based on the types and number of archives, the vendors involved and the timeframes associated with the project. Our efforts are aimed at helping you to use your resources wisely, regardless of your size, complexity or financial position. We manage the details of the extraction and archiving tasks so that your staff can focus on their normal tasks and on learning to setup and use the new system properly.
CharlesRiver customizes the user interface to mimic the legacy system so as to minimize the learning curve for the user. Data integrity is maintained through the use of our SMART Conversion process, which provides for multiple “Mock” extraction/ conversion efforts. We work with the customer to validate and eliminate inconsistencies in the legacy data prior to the final archive.
